OMG watching the entire Montgomery County Council meeting is torture.

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Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.

Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?

That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.

Why don't you accept that as a solution?

Friedson ran on being pro-business. What did you think that meant?

Pro-business is fine. He's just a liar. He will campaigned relentlessly for new developments, and when residence complain that there's no infrastructure in place for parking for example, he will deny being for that new development.

There is already plenty of parking in Bethesda. It just might not be free and immediately in front of your destination. There does not need to be more parking in Bethesda.

However, the County Council does not have authority over individual new developments, so he's not lying.

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Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.

Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?

That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.

Why don't you accept that as a solution?

Friedson ran on being pro-business. What did you think that meant?

Pro-business is fine. He's just a liar. He will campaigned relentlessly for new developments, and when residence complain that there's no infrastructure in place for parking for example, he will deny being for that new development.

Subsidies for residential developers are pretty short sighted as a pro-business plan. Residential development creates some temporary low-paying jobs (he has opposed amendments requiring developers to pay workers a living wage), but it's very expensive for the county to support over the long term. A real pro-business plan would be removing barriers to doing business. Developers have told the county they're not building housing because the county doesn't create enough jobs.

The thing about Friedson's subsidies is that they don't cause housing to get built anyway. Developers build when they think the market is ready, and if they get a subsidy, they pass it on to Wall Street. When we write checks to businesses, long-term, high-paying jobs should be part of the deal.

Also, Bethesda has had a parking surplus since building the new garage on Woodmont. It doesn't need more parking. But the builder of the farm market project wants a garage for its building, so the county will subsidize building one.

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This won’t be a popular opinion in Montgomery County, but I think government should represent everyone and political parties should always seek to broaden participation, even among people who aren’t affiliated with them. This is even more important when one major party has consolidated power to the point that the other party is unable to field viable candidates or even run contested primaries. A lot of people don’t feel represented at all and are not willing to affiliate with a party.

All you have to do is register with a party, vote in the primary, and then change your registration back to independent. If your unwillingness to affiliate with a party in order to be able to vote in the primary, outweighs your desire to vote in the primary, that's on you.

Just as the Republican Party's inability to field viable candidates and run contested primaries is on them.

That kind of attitude is how we've ended up with Group Think in Rockville.

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This won’t be a popular opinion in Montgomery County, but I think government should represent everyone and political parties should always seek to broaden participation, even among people who aren’t affiliated with them. This is even more important when one major party has consolidated power to the point that the other party is unable to field viable candidates or even run contested primaries. A lot of people don’t feel represented at all and are not willing to affiliate with a party.

All you have to do is register with a party, vote in the primary, and then change your registration back to independent. If your unwillingness to affiliate with a party in order to be able to vote in the primary, outweighs your desire to vote in the primary, that's on you.

Just as the Republican Party's inability to field viable candidates and run contested primaries is on them.

That kind of attitude is how we've ended up with Group Think in Rockville.

Which kind of attitude? The kind of attitude where you take responsibility for your own actions (including the unsuccessful ones)?

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Anonymous wrote:The only competent member is Friedson.

1/3 of MoCo registered voters are independents, so we get no voice in the primaries. We need open primaries.

Have you considered switching your party registration so that you can have a voice in the primaries?

That’s not an acceptable solution, in my opinion.

I used to think more highly of Friedson, but then he got on the Casey Anderson/Hans Riemer developer subsidy/trickle-down economics bandwagon.

Why don't you accept that as a solution?

Friedson ran on being pro-business. What did you think that meant?

Pro-business is fine. He's just a liar. He will campaigned relentlessly for new developments, and when residence complain that there's no infrastructure in place for parking for example, he will deny being for that new development.

Agree with this. Friedson is a liar and does not care what his constitutents want or need.

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Friedson's mother is Leslie Friedson, who owns a real estate group in Bethesda. His only interest is pushing condo development on the county because it helps the family business. I'd like to seem him lose his spot on the county council in the next election.

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It's amazing how many supposedly informed people don't know that the county council doesn't make individual land use decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how many supposedly informed people don't know that the county council doesn't make individual land use decisions.

Who said that? Besides, the council can make a lot of pro-development policies without making a single individual land use decision.

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how many supposedly informed people don't know that the county council doesn't make individual land use decisions.

So you think the fact that they determine zoning is not relevant. Okay.

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Really? These people are in charge of our fate?!?! And they are sitting as the county health council, passing mandates and amendments BUT the county health officials are no longer in attendance at the meeting!
This is the three stooges X 3.

They clearly have no grasp of the data or the statistics.
It doesn't even matter which side you are on for any issue, mask mandates or whatever.
They are incompetent!

VOTE THEM OUT

Run and get elected and do a better job.

OP probably already did and lost. Robin Ficker, we know it’s you, Go Away.

Oh come on. You don’t need to be Robin Flicker to know that Elrich and the stooges on the county council are incompetent. Every reasonable Democrat in this county can see it. If you needed any confirmation of this you would have gotten it for two hours this afternoon watching that meeting.
They represent no one’s best interests except their own.

That's because Eltich and many of the council are socialists, not Democrats.